Nutrition
Fufu and Light Soup
Fufu and light soup is a traditional Ghanaian dish; it is delicious food that you won’t want to miss out on when it comes to Ghanaian cuisine.
Light soup is tomato based. Fish, goat, lamb, chicken, beef, or pork can all be used to make this light soup.
Basically, Fufu in Ghana is derived by combining cassava and plantain.
Ingredients
Fresh tomatoes
Beef/Goat meat/ Chicken/ Lamb meat
Fresh fish (tilapia or catfish)
Tomato paste
Chili peppers
2 large onions
3 spoonful of salt
Seasoning
3 teaspoonful of ginger and
garlic
4 fingers of okro
Fufu Ingredients
Fresh cassava
Unripe plantain
How to make Ghana Light Soup
-First of all clean your fish, remove the gills and the innards then rinse in clean water and set aside. Thereafter, wash the meat and equally keep it aside.
-Secondly, blend your ginger, garlic, onion, seasoning cube, salt, and spices, scoop some quantity into the fish and marinate the fish, cover and set aside.
-In a pot containing the meat pour the remaining blended garlic and ginger mixture, add the tomato paste, salt, bay leaf, with more water, cover and cook for about 10 minutes.
-Thirdly, wash your tomatoes, onions, and pepper and remove the stem of pepper, scrap off the onion head.
-Place fresh tomatoes, onions, pepper into a clean pot and pour 1 cup of water into the pot and bring to boil.
-Next is to remove the fresh tomatoes, pepper, and onions from heat and blend. Ensure you don’t discard the boiled water from the tomatoes rather use it to blend the tomatoes; or pour into the meat, add more water.
Finally, bring soup to a simmer over low heat for like 15 minutes then add the fresh fish; clean your okra/ okro and add into the cooking pot, cover and cook to doneness.
Optional: Sieve the soup if you like to get the clear light look of the soup else skip the process.
Light soup is ready.
How to make Ghana Fufu
On the same note, cassava flour can be used in place of fresh cassava tubers.
First of all, peel the skin of your cassava tuber and plantains then boil for about 25-30 minutes to tender.
Secondly, using a mortar and pestle which is the major instrument for local pounding, or use a Yam pounder machine to pound it.
Start with the plantain, thereafter add the cassava, sprinkle some water as you pound for easy pounding until a smooth paste is achieved; Your smooth fufu is ready.
Source: shopafricausa.com
Nutrition
Coconut yam porridge
Ingredients
-½ tuber yam
-Leftover stew substitute with fresh pepper mix
-Seasoning
-3 tablespoonfuls of salt
– 3 tablespoonfuls of coconut milk
-Half bottle of palm oil
– 2 tablespoonfuls of pepper
-3 tablespoonfuls of dried shrimp
Preparation
-Add hot boiling water to the dried shrimps and cover for about 10 minutes and then rinse clean with cool water.
-Peel yam and cut into chunks, wash and rinse clean.
-Add yam pieces to a pan and place on medium heat.
Add palm oil, pepper, coconut milk and little water just enough to cover the yam or at the same level as the yam.
-Add seasoning and salt, cover the pan with a lid and leave to cook on low heat.
-After five minutes, add the washed shrimps and continue to cook on low heat till yam is soft.
-Using a wooden ladle, mash yam into pieces but not to puree, leave some yam chunks if you desire.
-Check for salt and seasoning.
-Cook for another three-five minutes and take off the heat.
Source: myactivekitchen.com
Nutrition
Clear streets of hawkers, destitute
Dear Sir,
I want to use this platform to appeal to the Korle Klottey Municipal Assembly (KoKMA) to rid the streets of hawkers to make it convenient for commuters.
These hawkers have been on the streets, especially the Kwame Nkrumah Circle area for some time with a few attributing their stay there to political expediency.
Every inch of space for pedestrians have been covered by their activities, leaving commuters to sometimes walk on the streets with the vehicles.
As if that is not enough, the rest of the space has been occupied by destitute and ‘junkies’.
With the election over, the Assembly must be seen to be clearing the mess these group of people have created.
Fact is, moving around the area has become a challenge as one has to tread carefully in order not to step on any wares on sale.
It is not a good and comfortable sight at all and I believe this will be the right time to clear the area to ensure some sanity in the area.
Regina,
Bubiashie
